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Personal profile
Research interests
Contemporary art, queer art, queer theory, trans studies, museology, new museology
Research overview
Alex is a PhD student in Museum and Heritage Studies examining how museums and galleries in the US and UK curate, display, and write about queer art and artists. They completed their MLitt in Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of St Andrews in 2022 with a dissertation titled Challenging Representations: Queer Representation in Contemporary Arts. Alex's current research builds on this dissertation, focusing specifically on contemporary queer art exhibitions since 2015. They are co-supervised by Dr Bruno Brulon Soares and Dr Catherine Spencer.
Industrial relevance
Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive
Queer Traces, August 2024-January 2025.
Desire Paths, February 19-25, 2025
Past Shelves: Histories of Queer Reading, March 5 - April 30, 2026
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Letters, Museum and Gallery Studies
Sept 2021 → Aug 2022
Award Date: 30 Nov 2022
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St Andrews Postgraduate Symposium of Art and Culture
Lednicky, A. (Chair of organising committee), JIN, C. (Chair of organising committee), Alessandrini Lupia, F. (Member of organising committee), Bourke, A. M. (Member of organising committee), Volochniuk, K. (Member of organising committee) & Mesonjnik, R. (Member of organising committee)
14 Oct 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a conference
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Religion from the Outside
Lednicky, A. (Chair)
13 Jun 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a conference
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As I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Stonewall: Saintly Iconographies in the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Lednicky, A. (Speaker)
13 Jun 2026Activity: Talk or presentation types › Presentation
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Lessons from Fragments (Legacies of HIV/AIDS in Queer American Art)
Lednicky, A. (Speaker)
Jun 2026Activity: Talk or presentation types › Presentation
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Crip Art Histories Reading Group
Lednicky, A. (Organiser) & Howie, L. M. (Organiser)
17 Mar 2026 → 31 May 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a workshop, seminar, course